With coverage starting early morning on March 12 and running through the weekend, Sky F1 will be the place to be to watch the eight hours of live track action from each day - plus a nightly Round-up show and Ted's Testing Notebook. There's never been a pre-season testing schedule quite like this - and you can watch it all live on Sky Sports F1 from next Friday as Formgets fully up and running with three days of action in Bahrain. And just three days of track testing to get up to speed before the new Formula 1 season begins. Lewis takes P2 and Valtteri P6 for the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team on Saturday in Abu Dhabi. What is also notable is that there aren't many sponsors on that car as yet, while Williams haven't yet revealed what they have spent their tokens on - only admitting the FW43B was "evolutionary on the technical side". Firing up our 2022 F1 car for the first time - the W13 is ALIVE. Retaining Frank Williams' initials in the newly-launched FW43B is a nice touch, as is the blue, white and yellow design - evoking memories of those dominant title-winning cars from the 1980s and '90s. The Red Bull is 6.7 km/h slower than the AlphaTauri with the same engine, probably due to more downforce, more fuel and later DRS activation, and Williams is the fastest car with a Mercedes engine as expected as they certainly have less downforce than the Aston Martin and Mercedes.Īlpine is the only team to use Renault’s E-Tech 20B power units, and the slower than them were only McLaren, Aston Martin and Mercedes using Mercedes F1 M12 E Performance power units.Williams say they wanted to acknowledge their "incredible past" while also "looking to the future" with their new car, the first since the Williams family stepped away from the team last year. In its fastest lap on the last day, Tsunoda achieved the highest top speed in the pre-season tests (322.7 km/h), but they almost certainly had less fuel than their sister team Red Bull with the already mentioned earlier use of DRS, which will not be allowed in the first race of the season.įerrari’s progress is also impressive, as Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Haas are in second, third and fifth place, and three cars with Ferrari’s engine have their top speed within 2.2 km/h. Yuki Tsunoda surprised on the last day of testing with the second fastest time for AlphaTauri Honda, but later it turned out that in the fastest lap he opened the DRS on his AT02 much earlier thus gaining a few kilometers per hour of speed on the main straight. In a statement, Mercedes said: The designation E Performance is the new technology label used in product names and badging on all forthcoming Mercedes-AMG hybrid cars, with the W12 being our first Formula 1. Top speed is affected by many factors that are not easy to identify in tests such as fuel quantity, engine mode, downforce levels and moment of DRS opening as its use in tests is not limited to DRS zones. Mercedes is only the third team to confirm a 2021 F1 car launch date, after Alfa Romeo (22 nd February) and McLaren (15 th February). Last year, Ferrari struggled with straight line speed, both due to the lack of power of its power unit and the car that provided too much air resistance in an effort to create as much downforce as possible.įerrari F1 team principal Mattia Binotto confirmed that Ferrari’s speed on the straights is no longer a weakness, and top speed data of Ferrari and their clients Alfa Romeo and Haas support the theory that Ferrari managed to find plenty of power from the new 065/6 powertrain.
The top speeds on the Bahrain International Circuit are achieved towards the end of the start and finish line, and although testing is not always the most accurate indicator of the form and speed of an individual team, they still give the first insight into where each team stands.
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